Resources, news, events and opportunities
Operation Noah will hold an online Supporters’ Event on Saturday 18 June 2022 at 10.30am. The theme of the event is Alternatives to Fossil Fuelled Violence: Listening to Our Global Neighbours, and will feature reflections from Christian climate campaigners from around the world alongside a variety of workshops on specific topics. Save the date!
As part of the SMK National Campaigner Awards 2022, Operation Noah has been shortlisted for the David & Goliath Award, which celebrates ‘individuals or small campaign groups that take on much bigger organisations and challenge vested power’. Winners will be announced at a virtual awards ceremony on 19 May at 4pm. Read more.
UK Divest needs your help in contacting local council candidates before the 5 May elections. Despite more than three-quarters declaring a climate emergency, local authorities continue to invest nearly £10 billion in the companies fuelling and profiting from the climate crisis. The 5 May elections offer an opportunity to get local politicians to publicly declare their support for fossil fuel divestment. Find your local candidates and send them an email here.
This game from the Financial Times offers a sense of the scale of change required to move us from a world that runs on fossil fuels to one that hardly needs them. Top Tip for game-players (and real-world policymakers): ambition is rewarded. Play the game.
Just 20 fossil fuel firms, including Shell and BP, are projected to spend $932 billion on new oil and gas fields by 2030. Yet the International Energy Agency says we must stop all new oil and gas fields to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Read more.
The chief executive of Scottish Power has said energy price rises later this year are going to be ‘horrific’. He said the 54% increase in the energy price cap was already affecting customers, and another steep rise is expected in October. In March, 500+ Church leaders called on the UK Government to implement a windfall tax on record-setting oil and gas profits in order to help people struggling to pay their bills – a call which has so far been ignored. Read more.
Faith leaders and institutions are being invited to sign a letter from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. The letter calls for an end to coal, oil and gas expansion, for an equitable phase-out of existing fossil fuel developments and for the global transition to 100% renewable energy. Read more and sign the letter here.